Comments on: Disney busts pinata makers

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:11:17 +0000

What we need are GPL style-licensing on some new, original cartoons. Hey there independant film-makers, anyone want to do some “good for the public” and make a few characters for the kids?

Then we can all copy them and use them for our logos, pinatas, splashguards, bumper-stickers, t-shirts, etc, etc.

And It would be a great way to shove a friendly finger in the air at Disney corp. Let them see people switching over.

If done right, these GPL-style licensed cartoons (with a caveat for family-rating, of course), could really take off. Just look at the many iterations of Tux and how popular he is…..

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:15:16 +0000

to make it fun!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:14:54 +0000

Made me laugh LOFL. Good one mate.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 11:34:19 +0000

Since the pinateros cannot use disney characters anymore, maybe the “Dan Glickman” or “Mitch Bainwol” Pinata would be a good seller… I know a few people who would love to hang him in effigy and beat him with a stick =P

Cheers, Zathras

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:28:24 +0000

this is such bull crap… I fucking hate copywrites that make this possible…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:33:13 +0000

I don’t want to contradict you but “Steamboat Willie” was actually Mickey mouse
as directed by none other than Disney himself. This is why Disney use the clip
as their flagship toon.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:57:53 +0000

Disney is far from having lilly white hands. Copyrighting an existing character for their flagship image, the mouse hails back to a previous work called Steamboat Willie.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight was originally recorded by Pete Segar who got the tune from what he believed to be an African folksong. He later learned that wasn’t the case and the tune was indeed owned. He paid royalties on the song without any sort of court mandate and did so willingly once he learned it was not as he thought a folk-lore tune. However Disney went the full 9 yards in court, fighting the case. They won, as usual by being the one with the most money. A ruling on the version used in the movie had been established, however warpsided it was.

For doing far less than the same thing, now every corporation wants to turf protect, be it Microsucks or a media corporation. It is alright for them to steal images, tunes, and methods. By the same viewpoint they feel it isn’t alright for others to follow in their own footsteps.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:28:26 +0000

I might buy or rent their movies after I have downloaded what will be $500 worth if I had purchaesed them. Disney is in danger of losing another customer to downloading if they persists in this type of abuse.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:14:01 +0000

YOU’LL get busted for using that Scrooge pic Jon. hehe

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:08:56 +0000

Some of these cartoon characters should have been in “public domain”, but thanks to these corrupt corporations, “not in our lifetime”.

A critical mass is very close to being reached …